ملف ٦٤٩٩/ ١٩٢٠ الجزء ١ "شؤون الكويت: النزاع الحدودي بين الكويت ونجد؛ عدم شعبية الشيخ محلّيًا" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٣] (٢٩٤/٢٥٩)

Telegram. Cypher R.
From Civil Commissioner, .Baghdad.
To P. A. Bahrain.
No. 7213.
Dated 15th June 1920.
Your despatch of 3rd June, 149-0.
would prefer Bin Saud to come to direct settled-
men t wi th Sal im.
As regards last paragraph see Bushire telegram of
10th U une 1144.
Translation of a letter dated 7th Ramadhan 1338 (= 26th
May 1920) from Bin Saud, Ruler of Bejd, to Major H.R.P.
Dickson, C.I.E*, Political Agent, Bahrain.
After Compliments,
The object of writing this friendly letter is to
enquire after your health and to say that my condition will
please you in every respect. Nothing has occured except
what I informed your Honour of, in my previous letter,
regarding Bin Sub ah, Shaikh of Kuwait, and. his evil desire
to harm my subjects the ’’Mutair 1 *, who are residing iwitnin
my boundaries as you may have heard. Bin oubah equippeo. hi
troops and armed the tribesmen residing in tne vicinity of
Kuwait and determined to fight theiji VMutair).
He then advanced to a place called Q,aryah and declared
war against my subjects. I have informed your Honour in
order that m^xmay you may communicate with the Civil
Commissioner in Mesopotamia and ask him to let ne xnov
whether Bin Subah is under the protection of the High
British Government or^ not. If he is, then I request that
His transgression and pointless intrigues may oe stopped.
If he is not, i.e., if he is independent, I request I may
be informed; my object is only to prevent ynKxfc&xSLfcagxk^ft
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any incident which may cause displeasure. I had requested
you to stop him (Salem) from his goings-on, but he is